Who owns culture? [electronic resource] : appropriation and authenticity in American law / Susan Scafidi.
Series: Rutgers series on the public life of the artsPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 203 pISBN:- 0813536057 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0813536065 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 346.7304/8 22
- KF2979 .S28 2005eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-188) and index.
The commodification of culture -- Ownership of intagible property -- Cultural products as accidental property -- Categorizing cultural products -- Claiming community ownership via authenticity -- Family feuds -- Outsider appropriation -- Misappropriation and the destruction of value(s) -- Permissive appropriation -- Reverse appropriation of intellectual properties and celebrity personae -- Civic role of cultural products -- An emerging legal framework.
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